Dang! Every third person is building an RSS Atom Feedreader! (complimentary)

The morning routine of making all the red dots go away has again become mentally draining and distracting. Every time I buy something, sign in somewhere, or try something new, I’m added to someone’s marketing emails or newsletter. Time to prune the apps, unsubscribe, etc.

Anyone I know ever used Bounce by Anew Social / (~Bridgy Fed) to “migrate” followers from Mastodon to Bluesky? Just wondering how it went.

Recently I learned of this highly regarded boutique amp builder in my area. Point to point hand-wired Fender circuits. Very cool stuff. The owner Jim is currently doing some mods on my 68 Custom Deluxe Reverb. Can’t wait to get it back. Yorke Electric Sound

Gem conventions are not really my scene, but I do like geology and natural history. Some of these crystals carry stories from deep time. Others will make new ones.

Every year I start out thinking I planted way too many tomatoes from seed. A month later I'm glad I did because I've managed to kill at least half of them.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but once someone reaches a certain level of success and wealth, constantly leaning on the “I grew up with nothing and had it hard for a year” story feels a little unnecessary.

There be giants.

I would just like my kids to safely be able to bike to school. As a kid I biked to school, I biked everywhere. It was simple. The only thing keeping us from that is safe streets.

Making an app for Ghost CMS. The options are very limited on mobile, and as far as I'm aware, there aren't any with a WYSIWIG editor and inline images, galleries, block quotes etc. It also has character count and automatic titles for micro posts.

Mi è arrivata questa scheda elettorale per il referendum costituzionale. Amici italiani qui, che ne pensate? 🇮🇹

No matter how much I save in my various retirement accounts, this number always goes up.

Truly a perfect news alert

It was time to renew my registration, so I decided to get the new pollinator paradise plate, designed to support Oregon State University bee research.

The dishwasher has been a moody bitch lately and didn't want to clean anything on the upper rack. Turns out these sprayer arms get clogged with food. Figured out how to open it up, and hoooboy, that was grosss.

📺 S1E1. I’m always late to these sorts of things. Entertained.

Vibe coded an 11ty site to look like my Pika blog, fed by tagged posts from a Ghost CMS backend. Has micro and titled posts, photo gallery, microformats, tag based RSS/JSON feeds, ActivityPub alias. Tinkering with standard.site lexicons at some point. https://afterword.blog

I just could not get back to sleep last night, but managed to remember there was an eclipse of the moon, so eventually wandered outside to watch it for awhile and snapped this quick pic of the sky.

This is perfect. 10/10, no notes. An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Spent $315 in the last 12 months on electricity for my car. I never even think about gas prices. If your driving requirements mostly consists of commuting a few days per week, you might consider switching. One of the better decisions I ever made. Maintenance is windshield wiper fluid and tires.

Me, every 3 months as a balding middle aged man, on the verge of buzzing my head again after 3 months of growth and lying to myself that I can totally pull off a Walter Goggins mop.

I have this cheap little guitar by Canadian maker Art & Lutherie. It’s an old model called a Folk Cedar, with basically the same dimensions as a Gibson LG-2. I have played many small body Gibson guitars and this thing sounds better than most, at 1/10th the price.

Always a good time when I’m hanging out with people 7-10 years younger than me and they find out my parents are younger than theirs. Yep, child of teenagers.

music.apple.com/us/album/secr... #musicmonday

From Rep. Hai Pham, DMD: "You're invited to our Hillsboro Town Hall - March 10th from 6-7 pm" With Mayor Beach Pace and County Commissioner Jason Snider. Read on: buff.ly/wkrDhM6

People keep ruining their faces with upper eyelid blepharoplasty. Cannot believe people think this looks better. The eyes are the windows to the soul. Leave them the eff alone.

Heading out for some dinner and drinks with friends before going to the Neko Case + Destroyer show tonight.

Did the Leo pointing meme when I noticed myself in an update blog about a project I'm excited about 🤩👉🏼 No, but really, this integration is brilliant, especially being able to look up @standard.site pubs via atproto handles 👏🏼

The new dining room window lets in mostly ambient light throughout the day, but gets direct sun for a couple hours. Big change for this former cave. I’d like to build a bench seat across here. And replace the fence. Someday. 😅

This morning, I got things set up for the seed starts. February always seems early, but tomatoes and peppers really do need this time. Excited to try some new varieties this year.

Released On This Day (2/25/1985): Tears For Fears’ Songs From the Big Chair #releasedonthisday #tearsforfears #songsfromthebigchair #everybodywantstoruletheworld #pop #poprock #newwave #synthpop #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylcommunity #vinylrecords #music

Crucial Track for February 26, 2026: "Naive" by Softcult Aligning with my winter mood. https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/bryan/20260226

About a year ago, I had 12 EV chargers installed at work. At the time, I thought that maybe 12 was too optimistic a number. Even with a sizable grant and rebates, I worried about the optics if they’d sat empty. Today (and many days), they are fully occupied and paying for themselves.

I will never understand how anyone can justify paying for food delivery on a regular basis. As a household in the top 10% of earners, it still feels incredible indulgent and frivolous when we use it once or twice per year. The high cost of getting food delivered > NPR

I have been requesting this feature for years. Took you long enough, Apple Music.

"In the first full year after installation, that figure jumped to 114,682 rides — a staggering 120 per cent increase. Ridership hasn’t plateaued since. Counts rose another 1.7 per cent in 2023, 5.7 per cent in 2024 and 6.9 per cent in 2025, marking four straight years of growth." 🚲🚴🚲

I’ve worked for two employers for nearly 20 years between them (in increasingly responsible positions). While I’m sure they could say the same of my CV, the average tech person’s employment history on LinkedIn is anxiety inducing for me.

Publishing to the ATmosphere Using standard.site and sequoia.pub, my blob should now start publishing documents to ATProto. https://heaths.dev/atproto/2026/02/21/publishing-to-the-atmosphere.html

Putting this out there for anyone who might benefit from the info. Weekly extended fasting (48+ hours) cured my GERD. I suffered from it even as a thin person and tried different things to calm it down, from eliminating certain foods, eating earlier, and meds. Nothing else worked long term.

Was being overly critical of my guitar playing abilities the last few days, but was quickly cured by spending a couple hours in guitar center today. Tough on the ears, but true self care in the end!

Hopscotch Immersive Art Experience: https://lowvelocity.org/hopscotch-immersive-art-experience/

Our 8th anniversary was last week. Came across this photo of us at our friends’ wedding in 2017 a few months before we got married. Amazing how much has changed since that time. You have helped me become a better human and I’m grateful to have shared this last decade with you.

My wife, heading out the door with the kids to meet up with a friend for the day: “Now B, make sure you work on {that home project} and not just play guitar all day.”

One thing I did not anticipate when I became a homeowner was just how much tree management/removal I would have to do. Our hemlock died due to drought, two pine trees were planted too close to the driveway, and two ironwoods that grew to massive proportions next to the house. PNW, 4900 SF lot.

"Standard.site provides shared lexicons for long-form publishing on AT Protocol. Making content easier to discover, index, and move across the ATmosphere." Standard.site - One schema. Every platform.

Look who’s back

It took exactly one calendar year for the Republican Party to shatter the American automobile industry and indefinitely take it out of global contention.

I like how as a society we've all just mutually agreed to ignore the fact that Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah is awful because Jeff Buckley's version is incredible.

Every time I go to the grocery store, I'm more appalled. I have no idea how typical Americans are affording life.